I had no idea one of my favorite food content creators had a cookbook coming out this year until last week! Claudia has been my been my constant companion and comadre in expanding my Mexican recipe repetoire, and in getting better at the things I knew how to make, but not super well. Her food is so tasty, y’all. Get into her channel and this book if you’re tryna throw down, family style.

An unnamed narrator in Barcelona is grieving the tragic loss of Diego, the brother she helped raise in Mexico when their mother was trying to make a living in Spain. Ashes in hand, she returns to Mexico, reliving painful memories from the life she shared with Diego. This is a novel about loss, migration, and separation that both feels painfully timely and evergreen in its themes. It’s translated by Megan McDowell, whose translated for folks like Mariana Enriquez and Samantha Schweblin.

You may know Isabel Ibañez from her YA duologies, What the River Knows and Woven in Moonlight. This historical romantic fantasy is her adult debut! Ravenna is a scultpress with a terrible secret in Renaissance Florence, where the Pope has waged a war against magic and the immortal dei Luni family runs the city through fear. Ravenna enters a high-stakes competition hosted by the dei Lunis to save her brother’s life, but try as she might, she can’t seem to resist the charms of the family’s merciless and seductive heir. This is the first in a planned quartet, so strap in!

This is the third book in the Wild Magic series, a magical romance series about the Flores sisters, who each have a magical gift (mild spoilers for this series ahead). The first book was centered Sage and her plant magic, the second on Teal who can manipulate weather. Now we get a book focused on Sky, the sister who was the ghost in the other two books. It turns out she was in a sort of magical sleep this whole time, and reintegrating into the world of the living is several kinds of hard. I love the magic in these books, the sister bonds, the neurodivergent rep, and the fact that the town they live in is called Cranberry.

As I’ve had to explain to several people in my life over the last few months, no: I am not the Vanessa Diaz who wrote this book. You best believe you would know if I had written any book. But one about Benito? Please, you’d be sick of me.

I love me some Conejo Malo and while I wouldn’t call him an activist, per se, I am eager to read this examination, from the creators of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus,” of his undeniable cultural impact and the voice he has given to the folks doing the work of resistance.

Also: what are we all wearing to Benito Bowl?

This is Jo Segura’s third romance novel, and while I have not seen the books officially linked as a series anywhere, they very much follow a (delightful) theme: all three books, each with a name that’s a riff on an Indiana Jones movie, feature one or more archaeologist MCs. In this latest release, Daniela is a plucky librarian who’s been in love with her brother’s best friend forever, an archaeologist who went missing—or so everyone thinks. On a solo trip to Greece, Daniela finds out that he’s very much alive but abducted by smugglers, and now she’s tied up alongside him. Their only hope to escape their captors is to work together to solve an ancient Minoan mystery.

Alyssa Bermudez is a talented illustrator of lots of adorable children’s books. This graphic memoir is a moving and personal account of the author’s freshman year of high school, a year full of new beginnings, scary changes, and unexpected challenges.